The Progress., 1887-12-17

prlsOnment IN the pen1tent1ary Tor one year.
THOMAS j. ELLIS, JR., shot his wife at
Keokuk, Ia, on the 8th and then killed
himself Domestic trouble was the cause.
AT an exhibition performance in New
York on the 9Th several children of about
nine years old displayed wonderful ability
as plano players, some almost equaling
ating sensation.
The Barnhill Coal Company of Cleveland,
O.. failed on the 9th for $12O, ,OOO
s9e The typhoid fever epidemic continues to
spread in Pittsburgh, Pa. Thirty -four new
cases were reported on the 9Th
BURGLARS on the Sth entered the store of
Martin l. Son ct Portia, Ark, and stole
81, 200 in cash and several Thousand dollars
in securities tf&J Z III z5 .1&511G.2
MEREDITH l. ALTMAN, bankers at Silver
City. N. NJ, failed on the 9th for large
amount d.. %. ..---- r...-.. s..r.. ..- -s-.
AT meeting Of the National Committee
of the Union Veteran Legion ON the 9Th at
Pittsburgh, Pa, 1t was voted to hold the
next National meeting at Youngstown, o.,
February % next
A BOMB was found on the Sth at Logans-
port, Ind, in box OF holiday goods sent
from Chicago to Al Quaeley, Of that city.
. HEAVY rains were reported throughout
Southern Texas on the 9Th, breaking the
drought and saving the wheat CROP
A FIRE on the 9Th in Great Bend, N Y,
destroyed several of the best business
houses The loss was heavy.
On the steps Of the Reformed Church at
hvington, N. j., a dynamite bomb with fuse
attachment was found on the Sth An un-
successful attempt had been made to ex-
plode the internal machine 49,
THREE naproos Adam HharIoe ,1-
Miller and William Smith, who had as
saulted Minnie Myers, a ten-year-old girl,
were caught by party Of whites and
blacks ON the 8th near Rlves, Tenn, and
hanged
JOHN RIDER and william Nichols were
killed in mine No 8, near Ashville, Ind, on
the Sth, and five others were seriously
burned by an explosion IN the Anchor mine
In his annual report on the 9Th Secretary
OF the Navy Whitney says the appropriation
for the department. for the last fiscal year
amounted to $13, 1S9. 900, and the balance
available at the end of that period was
1884, 800, which had been reduced by De-
cember to $l64, 500. The appropriations
for the current fiscal year amount to $26,-
$4,000, and the estimates for the year
ending June 80, 1889, to $23, ,427,9O
On the 9Th Brakemen Kline and Holmes
were killed in freight-train wreck on the
Northern Pacific road near Kimberly, Mimi,
and Engineer Travis was fatally scalded.
AMOS G. McCAMPBELL e. Co., bucket-shop
brokers, Of Louisville, KY, suspended on
the 9Th. The concern had branches in the
principal cities throughout the West and
South. .- -'
CRUISE RoDER1QuEz was hanged on the 9th
at Uvalde Tex, for the murder of Pancho
Garcia. He protested his innocence to the
last
AT Cincinnati on the 9th Baseball Re-
porters' Association was formed with
George Munson. of St. Louis, as president
The American Fishery Union held meet
ing on the 9th at Gloucester, Mass, to con-
slider the best course to adopt in the inter-
est Of the fisheries
UP to the 9th rain had fallen continuously
for ten days at Ashmore, ILL.,, and the high
ways were impossible and business was
virtually suspended.
A VALUABLE horse in Chicago died on the
9th from hydrophobia, caused by the bite of
dog. --
A GANG Of horse-thieves at Bear City,
Kan, was attacked by citizens on the 9th,
and three of the former were killed. p"
The jury in the case of John Arensdorf.
on trial at Sioux City, Ia. for the murder of
Rev. DR.. Haddock, returned verdict of
snot guilty" on the 9th
ALFRED L. FLoCKEN, book-keeper for Sc
comb, Kehew & Co., of Boston, was arrested
on the 95h for embezzling SO, 900 of the
firms funds .-E..,
The tableware workmen in nineteen flint
glass factories at Pittsburgh, Pa, to the
number of fourteen hundred, We're on the
9th ordered to strike because the rules and
scale adopted by the manufacturers did not
suit them.
= DURING the seven days ended on the 9th
there were 238 business failures in the
United States, against 215 the previous
seven days.
OFF Lewes. Del, on the 9th the steamer
Algiers struck and sunk the schooner Nellie
S. Jernell, three of the latter's crew being
drowned
THE regiment sent from Cleveland to
Fairport O.. on account Of the ore-handlers
strike arrived there on the 9th. Ten of the
leaders among the strikers had been ar
rested and new laborers had gone to work
under the protection of the troops
THE Red river at Elmwood, Tex. over
flowed its banks on the OH, destroying a
large portion of the cotton crop in that
vicinity. .-.
4AAohcO AACA Ou tu0 SGu dragged
Kingston-Brown and her eighteen-y
son from their home at East Bernard, COL
and murdered them No cause was known
for the crime .-.~ ~
TIE manufacturers of rubber boots and
shoes united in a trust in meeting at Bos-
ton on the 9th. ..-,
The Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Com
missioners fled a report with the Governor
on the 9th upon the Chatsworth railroad
disaster, censuring the Toledo, Peoria l.
Western railroad management for not keep
ing itself informed of the condition of It's
tracks t. ~.-. -. -
A cuRsoRY examination on the 9th of the
books OF Dubois County, Ind, showed ir-
regularities during the past eight years
amounting to $40, 900. r..
The case of Johann Most has been ap-
pealed to the New York Supreme Court,
and the Anarchist was released on the 9th
in S., 900 bail "
The next National encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic will be held at
Columbus, O., during the second week of
September - .s.,.-..
PERSONAL AMI pny yryrav ..s,aE..